Problem with Athlon64 machine

[Doug Stewart]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I've been having problems with my Athlon64 machine
> (Targa with Asus motherboard) with recent kernels.
> I wonder if anyone else has found this?
> 
> Basically, the machine hangs if left for a few minutes.
> I suspect it is something to do with ACPI.
> I've tried both the "official" Fedora kernels,
> and one (2.6.11.8) which I compiled with Athlon64 chosen
> as the processor.
> 
> I had difficulty compiling this with the official kernel,
> as I got several segmentation violations.
> Some at least of the violations occured during C++ compilation.
> 
> The machine seems to work perfectly under Windows XP,
> so I assume the problem is something to do with Linux
> rather than the hardware.
> 
> I know there are several things I could do,
> turn off ACPI, write down the oops information, etc.
> But I just wondered if other people have had
> the same problem?
> 
> As far as I recall, there were no problems with kernels
> prior to 2.6.10 , but that could be wrong,
> as the machine is mainly used by my grand-daughter
> for Sims-2 under Windows-XP.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

Try disabling the cpuspeed daemon - this has contributed to system 
instability on several AMD64 machines that I've used.

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Doug Stewart
Systems Administrator/Web Applications Developer
Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Labs
dstewart at atl.lmco.com